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Mulaitivu: 102 civilians including 25 children were killed and 140 more were injured including children when indiscriminate rain of shells including cluster types of shells fired by Sri Lankan Security Forces (SF) hit government announced new 'Safe Zone' in Puthumathalan, and Valaingra madam in Mulaitivu area on Monday.
SF troopers are using heavy volumes of artillery attacks and Air attacks and avoiding direct fighting with the LTTE troopers due to the very heavy losses of SF troopers in the fighting, sources added. Many families were also completely annihilated in these attacks on them, according to the sources in Vanni.
Children dying in large numbers injuring in large numbers are sure to leave long time scars in their minds of the Tamil community at large and Sri Lanka has to live with the consequences for very many years and decades to come. It is so unfortunate, there is no statement ship emerges from Sri Lanka to guide the country to the lasting peace with the solution satisfying the minority Tamil community, said a local aid worker in Vanni.
SF troopers' indiscriminate aerial and shell attacks killed hundreds and many hundreds injured within past few months while displaced over 300,000 including 40,000 children who are living in subhuman conditions. UNHRC statement last week said, at least 2800 civilians were killed and over 7000 injured within past two months of shelling in the war zone in Vanni. Also, UNICEF said, hundreds of children were killed thousands more were injured within past two months.
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